The future of our changing landscape

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We should start working out how best to adapt our man-made environment to enable the conservation of flora and fauna

Sir, It may be right that the Chalara fraxinea outbreak was entirely
predictable but it is a mistake to imagine that it was entirely avoidable (letters,
Oct 30). Denmark was powerless to prevent 90 per cent of its ash trees
from being wiped out and, even with a ban on imported ash seedlings, it is
naive to think that wind-blown fungal spores would never have made it across
to our island. A Government report in 2009 on climate change and forestry
anticipated these new threats as a warmer, wetter climate made it easier for
diseases to take hold of